Armageddon Rex,
The dead thread can be interesting. The big problems with your scenario is that it is assumes a nice level of two things;

1. political leadership that is competent and experienced,

2. operational readiness and reliability of all equipment when and as needed.

Neither is ever the case, not even in Israel. We did not win WW-II by planning for unreasonable standards of efficiency. Leaving aside all the human elements let us just talk about the equipment. You said that the British are supposed to have 3 carriers and 7 destroyers so you plan a campaign accordingly. Life doesn’t ahppen that way, especially in military operations. The use of the armed forces falls into two categories. Those are planned events and contingency operations. When the call comes at 3 AM you will hve to fight with what Rumself called the Army you have. If you want three carriers available then you need to pyrchase eight or nine ships.